Observations on the action of the broom-seed in dropsical affections / by Richard Pearson.

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Observations on the action of the broom-seed in dropsical affections / by Richard Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This treatment was persisted in until May 18th, when 10 grs- of the sem. spartii [scoparii] were prescribed ter die. 22nd—Dose of the broom-seed increased to xv grs. ter die, tri- turated with an equal quantity of carraway-seeds. 24th,—Urine increased, and deposits a copious purple sediment —dyspnoea and cough aggravated—swellings have disappeared. 27th, Urine copious and clear, but distress from the recum- bent posture still continues. After this, the dyspnoea and cough increasing, the broom-seed was discontinued, and digitalis and squill, &c. were prescribed. The man was dismissed cured, June 19th. {Remark by the Editor.—From this and other cases it appears that the brooin-seed is not adapted to thoracic dropsy, especially when that form of dropsy is combined with pulmonary congestion, or with any degree of inflammatory affection of the chest.] Third case of Dropsy under the care of Dr. Eccles. Thomas Sutty, a gentleman’s servant, was admitted an in- patient at the Hospital, June 6th, 1834. He had moderate oedema of the face, hands, and feet, attended with no other derangement of health, except loss of appetite and considerable paucity of urine of the natural colour. Under the impression of its being produced by cold, saline diaphoretic medicines with spirits of nitrous aether were prescribed until the 9th without effect. He afterwards took 5grs. of the pil. liydrargvri every night, and half an ounce of supertartrate of potassa, in divided doses, every day, with very little increase of urine. On the 23rd he commenced with drachm doses of the tinct. spartii juncei, in combination with infusion of gentian, three times a day, which was followed by the most marked effects; the quanti- ty of urine being more than doubled, and all his complaints being removed by the 6th of July, when he was discharged. {Remark by the Editor.—ha this case the broom-seed tincture produced neither nausea nor purging ; shewing how much depends -on the administration of the medicine in well-regulated doses.]